That time when Trump spoke in Iowa

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10 Moments From Trump's Iowa Speech

AMES, Iowa — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivered an angry, freewheeling speech Thursday night in which he used a four-letter epithet, sarcastically assailed rival Ben Carson and called voters "stupid" for believing accounts in Carson's compelling biography. Here are some highlights:

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On his plans for dealing with Islamic State militants:

"I know more about ISIS than the generals do. Believe me," he said. He went on to describe his plans for attacking Islamic State-controlled oilfields to choke off revenue.

"I'd bomb the s--- out of them," he said. "I would just bomb those suckers. That's right. I'd blow up the pipes; I'd blow up the refineries. I'd blow up every single inch. There would be nothing left."

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On Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who is challenging his lead in opinion polls:

"Carson's an enigma to me," said Trump, zeroing in on Carson's description of his own temper as a teenager.

"I don't want a person who's got pathological disease," Trump said. "Now if you're pathological, there's no cure for that. ... And I did one of the shows today and I don't want to say what I said, but I'll tell you anyway. I said that if you're a child molester, a sick puppy, you're a child molester, there's no cure for that. There's only one cure and we don't want to talk about that cure."

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Recounting Carson's story about attempting to stab a friend with a knife, also when he was young:

"He took a knife and he went after a friend, and he lunged — he lunged that knife — into the stomach of his friend, but, lo and behold, it hit the belt!" Trump said, dramatically recounting the scene from Carson's book.

"Give me a break. Give me a break," he said, before stepping away from the lectern to give a demonstration of his belt buckle moving up and down.

"Anybody have a knife, you want to try it on me?" he asked.

"How stupid are the people of Iowa? How stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap?"

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Questioning Carson's religious conversion:

"He goes into the bathroom for a couple of hours and he comes out and now he's religious. And the people of Iowa believe him. Give me a break," Trump summarized inaccurately. "Give me a break. It doesn't happen that way."

"Some people might not like it, 'Oh that's not really nice what you said.' Don't be fools. Don't be fools, OK?"

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On not caring what people think (and the press):

"I may leave here and you may say, 'Oh that was not nice what he said.' Who cares? Then you know, I go back to my life, I don't have to do interviews, which I don't like doing, to be honest with you. I can leave this scum back here, the press alone. I don't need 'em anymore, they're garbage. No, they're scum."

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On Iowa:

"I love Iowa. I've been here so many times now, I think I'm going to buy a farm and maybe just move here."

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On Florida Sen. Marco Rubio:

"Weak on illegal immigration. Weak like a baby, like a baby. Not a good poker player because every time he's under pressure he starts to just profusely sweat. If he was playing poker with me, I'd say, 'Oh, I know what.' The water would start pouring off his body. I'd say, 'Ahh!' Oh boy he'd have a hard time."



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On Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton:

"She's going to run, she's going to be the candidate, and she's going to lose. She's going to lose, I tell you. Because people are sick and tired of watching what's going on, they're sick and tired with her, with her "ohhh," with her whole big attitude. And she's playing the woman card up. That's all she has. Honestly outside of the woman's card, she's got nothing going. Believe me."

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On his theory that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein lied about having weapons of mass destruction to scare Iran:

"This is the Trump theory on war. But I'm good at war. I've had a lot of wars of my own. I'm really good at war," he said. "I love war in a certain way. But only when we win."

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On illegal immigration:

"If you cross the North Korean border, and if you do it illegally, you get 12 years hard labor, 12 years. I think you get more than that. Actually, I think they kill you. ... If you cross the Afghanistan border illegally, you get shot. ... In Iran, you get eight years. ... There's a $5,000 fine for Americans crossing the Canadian border," he said.

"If you cross the United States border illegally, you get a job, you get a driver's license ... you get food stamps, you get a place to live, you get health care, housing, child benefits and in many cases education. You wonder why we're a debtor nation. You wonder why our country's going to hell."

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“I love war,” Donald Trump said.

That’s becoming more and more apparent — and more and more disturbing. The leading GOP presidential candidate declared his passion for violence on Thursday during a morbid, 95-minute, stream-of-consciousness rant in Fort Dodge, Iowa, a speech that was truly bananas, even by Trump’s standards.

As always, Trump insulted his rivals, calling Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, “a baby,” and Carly Fiorina “Carly-whatever-the-hell-her-name-is.” He lapsed into non sequiturs about his wealth. And he repeated the words “good” and “great” over and over again to describe himself.

What separated this invective from so many others, though, was Trump’s near-psychotic advocacy for war, torture and killing.

“I’m good at war,” he said. “I’ve had a lot of wars of my own. I’m really good at war. I love war in a certain way, but only when we win.”

At one point, he even invited an audience member — any audience member — to stab him in the stomach with a knife. (More on that later.)

We should have seen this meltdown coming.

At Tuesday’s debate, Trump doubled down on his absurdly cruel proposal to deport all of the nearly 11 million immigrants in the United States illegally. To defend his plan, he touted a program instituted by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954.

“Dwight Eisenhower,” Trump said. “You don’t get nicer. You don’t get friendlier.”

Here’s how nice and friendly “Operation Wetback” turned out to be.

Mexican immigrants were deported by ship in conditions comparable to that of “an eighteenth century slave ship,” according to a congressional investigation. Hundreds of thousands of people were dumped across the border in extreme heat that killed some of them. Others drowned.

Trump made his indifference to suffering and death even more clear on Thursday, when he ticked off the punishments meted out to immigrants in other countries. North Korea? Hard labor. Afghanistan? Shot to death.

“If you cross the United States border illegally, you get a job, you get a drivers license, you get food stamps, you get a place to live, you get health care, housing, child benefits and in many cases education,” he continued. “You wonder why we’re a debtor nation. You wonder why we’re going to hell.”

Would Trump prefer summary execution? He wouldn’t say — except in the case of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a “no-good, dirty, rotten traitor,” Trump said.

Bergdahl walked off his outpost in eastern Afghanistan in 2009. Captured by the Taliban, he was beaten, confined to a cage and locked in chains. For five years, he remained in constant isolation.

“They beat the crap out of him,” Trump said. “’Which is fine. I’m happy about that.”

Released last year in a prisoner swap, Bergdahl was charged with endangering troops and desertion. Trump is upset that an Army lawyer has recommended against jail time for Bergdahl.

“In the old days, he would have been shot for being a traitor,” Trump said. “He’s going to get nothing. I mean, seriously, in the old days … When we were strong and when we were smart, you’re shot.”

Ah, the “old days,” when America shot its veterans and left immigrants in the desert to die. With talk like this, one starts to get an idea of what Trump’s “deportation force” would look like.

Hint: It would not be “humane.”

But wait! There’s Trump — acting like a clown!

Mocking Ben Carson, Trump retold the neurosurgeon’s come-to-Jesus story. As told by Carson himself, he once tried to stab a friend in the stomach, only to be foiled by his friend’s belt.

“Lo and behold!” Trump said. “It hit the belt! It hit the belt. And the knife broke. Give me a break.”

To demonstrate his incredulity, Trump proceeded to flop his own belt up and down onstage in a spurt of folly that in a sane world would become the Donald’s very own Dean Scream doom story.

“Anybody have a knife?” Trump asked the audience. “You want to try it on me?”

It’s almost funny. At this point, though, the laughter just dies in the throat. Once a campy caricature of a callous candidate, Trump has become something more.

Now, he’s dangerous.